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We Don’t Have a Wage Problem; We Have a Money Problem
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The push to raise the minimum wage is relentless. For a while, it was “Fight for $15,” but with rampant price inflation, a $15 an hour minimum wage isn’t sufficient. Now it’s “Fight for $20.” Heck, it might even be “Fight for $25” at this point. I understand people’s…
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Can Greedy Politicians Really Stop Price Inflation With a “Price Gouging” Ban?
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Kamala Harris is going to fix price inflation. As she explains it, greedy corporations are arbitrarily raising prices and causing inflation. She will stop this “price gouging” and inflation will go away. The problem with this plan is greedy corporations don’t cause price inflation. Greedy politicians do. But Harris…
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Arizona Supreme Court Allows Fetuses To Be Referred To As ‘Unborn Human Beings’
(Headline USA) As Arizona voters prepare to decide in the fall whether to enshrine abortion as a right in the state constitution, a pro-life informational pamphlet can refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn human being,” the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday. The Arizona Supreme Court justices sided with Republican lawmakers, who drafted…
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Rep. Foxx Reacts to Columbia President’s Exit after ‘Disturbing Wave’ of Anti-Semitism
(Headline USA) Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., the chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, praised the departure on Wednesday of Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, whose testimony before the GOP-led committee in the spring brought concerns over the university’s tacit support for Hamas to the forefront. “During Shafik’s presidency, a disturbing…
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Sweet and Salty $30B Merger to Put M&M’s, Snickers Alongside Cheez-Its and Pringles
(Headline USA) M&M’s maker Mars is buying Kellanova, the maker of Cheez-Its and Pop-Tarts, for nearly $30 billion in an effort to broaden its snacking portfolio and expand globally. Kellanova was created last year when the Kellogg Co. split into two companies. Chicago-based Kellanova sells many of the former company’s most profitable brands, including Pringles,…
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Cisco Cuts 1,000s of Jobs, 7% of Workforce, as It Shifts Focus to AI, Cybersecurity
(Headline USA) Cisco Systems is planning to lay off 7% of its employees, its second round of job cuts this year, as the company shifts its focus to more rapidly growing areas in technology, such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. The company based in San Jose, California, did not specify the number of jobs it…
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‘Parental Rights’ Takes Front Stage in Florida School Board Elections
(Headline USA) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may not have won the Republican presidential nomination, but he’s still fighting political battles on another front—in Florida’s schools, where his policies have the potential to leave a lasting legacy on public education long after he leaves office. Though the seats are officially nonpartisan, DeSantis has endorsed 23 school…
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Teenage Vance Photo Assumes Meme Status as Left’s Smear Attack Backfires
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Talk about turning the tables. Conservatives rallied around an “unearthed” photo of Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance as an 18-year-old, playfully posing next to three girls using urinals in a men’s bathroom. The photo, first published by the Daily Mail on Thursday, appeared in the 2003 yearbook of Middletown High School, Vance’s…
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New Anti-Woke Streaming Service Merges Reality TV with Traditional Family Values
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Look out, Netflix. We The Studios, a new “anti-woke” streaming service, recently announced its launch into the world of family-friendly entertainment. It is the latest contributor to what some have dubbed the “parallel economy,” pushing back against woke corporations that have used the ESG movement and cancel culture in an attempt to…
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Trump Shooting Was Likely 1st Time EVER Secret Service Snipers Guarded a Former POTUS
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Talk about a coincidence: The July 13 rally where Donald Trump was nearly assassinated may have been the first time Secret Service snipers were ever deployed to guard a former President. As Headline USA reported earlier this month, Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe said the July 13 deadly campaign rally…
